Who it’s for
BookArc for self-published authors
You already know how to publish. The bottleneck is the draft, and the six weeks between “I should write that” and chapter three.
The problem
The draft is the wall
Publishing is a solved process once you have done it once. Producing 30,000 words is not, and it is where a book sits for a year.
The back catalogue problem
One book earns little. A shelf of them earns. But at one book a year, a shelf is a decade.
Formatting is a tax you pay every time
The print-ready interior, the EPUB, the trim, the embedded fonts — none of it is hard, and all of it is an afternoon per book, forever.
What actually changes
You describe the book in a sentence. The chapter plan comes back in about twenty seconds, and you edit it like an editor would — retitle, reorder, cut the chapter that was always going to be padding. Then it writes, one chapter at a time, each one knowing what happened in the ones before it.
What you get is a first draft. A first draft is not a book, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise — the edit is still yours, and it is still what makes the book good. But a first draft in an afternoon changes what is possible in a year.
The files, which is the part authors care about
- A typeset PDF with the cover on page one.
- A print-ready interior PDF at a true 6 × 9 trim, fonts embedded, a wider margin on the bound edge, and no cover bound in — which is what print-on-demand services actually require.
- An EPUB for the stores.
- A Word file, for the edit — in your own editor, in your own way.
- The cover artwork as a PNG.
On writing a series
Each book is planned on its own, so a series is a series of books rather than one long generation. What carries between them is your work: a consistent blurb style, an “also by” page in the back matter of each one, and the same author name spelled the same way in the metadata so the stores group them.
And the rules, plainly
Amazon permits AI-assisted books and requires you to declare them at upload. It caps how many new titles one account can publish per day. And it removes books for quality, not for tooling. All of which is fine if your plan is to publish good books, and a problem if your plan was volume. The full picture is here.
Questions people ask
Do I own what it writes?
Yes. BookArc takes no rights over the book and no cut of what it earns.
Can I use it for fiction?
Yes — the novel format plans 20 to 35 chapters with a real arc and keeps names, places, timeline and world rules consistent. It produces a draft; the edit is where it becomes yours.
Will KDP accept the print file?
That is what the print-ready interior is for: true 6 × 9, embedded fonts, gutter margin, no cover inside. Every print-on-demand service has its own preflight, so check the proof as you would with any file.
Also written for
- CoachesCoaching is sold on trust, and trust is expensive to build one conversation at a time. A book does it while you sleep.
- ConsultantsA consultant’s hardest problem is being credible to somebody who has never met them. A published book or report is the least effortful way to solve it.
- Course creatorsYour course already has a structure, a promise and an audience. Three of the four hard parts of writing a book are done.
Write the book you keep meaning to write.
Describe it in one sentence. BookArc plans the chapters, writes every one of them and designs the cover. 30 credits free, no card.